Gaming The SM RedCafe League

duffer said:
No real huge names or high (above 91) rated players. I have still taken them to 2nd place in the league, which makes me an incredible, inspirational manager.

I'm like a mixture of great mangers. 50% Fergie, 50% Mourinho and 50% Grant.
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Too right. I wish I'd got to Falcao first!
 
ciderman9000000 said:
Yeah, man, I clicked through all ten thousand players in the game looking for blue boxes - didn't just Google the Eridivisie's top goalscorers. Stop being such a jealous little slag; I beat you to the punch; deal with it. I'll play him when we meet in the league and you can slit your wrists some more when he puts five past your shite defence.
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:boring:
 
Just read through the last couple of pages, best lau I've had all night. :lol:

That Sunderland job by the way, hope my application this morning wasn't lost on the New Manager Selecting Committee!
 
Cider is like one of those cnuts off The Apprentice throwing in buzz words and wanking off his own equivalent of Lord Sugar, Sheik Mansour. The difference is, I run my club, no one else. I find my own players and make the club work efficiently.

Cider thinks my reject, Bas Dost, is the second coming of Christ when really he is a good player scoring goals in an average league. Apparently it makes more sense to buy him and sell Tevez who is rated higher. The same applies with Kompany.

He portrays himself as the Jesus Christ of the lower leagues. A friend. A savour. Loaning out his young players generously to help those who need it. The truth is Cider has tried to monopolise that area of the market that the lower league clubs could use to find their own gem. Big Red has fell for his smoke screen, I just hope the League Managers Association get together and try and remove Cider and his sham of a club from the Englsh Footbal League as soon as possible.
 
A warm welcome to Junior Carlao. Probably my final signing for a bit. Will be mostly rotated in the squad. Bought him as he plays CB/CDM where I'm slightly lacking and is solid backup at 86 for a progressing Milwall side.
 
Bas Dost at Citeh? TR turned him down about 3-4 weeks ago. Typical Citeh snapping up players being scouted by others :rolleyes:
 
Ah shite. Forgot to sent out a friendly challenge for tomorrow. Anyone want a friendly tomorrow night?
 
Just looking at some of the top non English European sides and their last starting 11. Our transfer muppetry has really screwed the European big boys over.

Inter Milan had Marton Fulop as GK, and a midfield of Beretta (76), Park, Fletcher and Carrick. Milan also started Matthew Upson (:lol:) Valencia, Evra and Berbatov. Clearly Zarlak has been having some fun with the Italian clubs...

Real Madrid's lineup was:

Casillias
Ramos - Gallas (:lol:) - Djourou (:lol:) - Clichy
Diaby (:lol:) - Meireles - A. Johnson
Benzema - Higuian - Dzeko
 
My team is now:

GK: Cech (93)
LB: Cole (94)
CB: Terry (93)
CB: Puyol (96)
RB: Ivanovic (92)
DM: Schweinsteiger (95)
CM: Iniesta (97)
CM: Lampard (93)
AML: Ozil (94)
AMR: Ribery (95)
ST: Drogba (94)

Subs: Turnball, Samuel, Ferraira, Lukaku, Kalou, Ramires, Melo

That first team line-up is :drool:worthy. But I'm going to be hit hard in the update - Cole, Lampard and Drogba will definitely go down (Cole probably to 92), but hopefully Sturridge will increase given he's more or less first-team for Chelsea now.
 
TheReligion said:
Cider is like one of those cnuts off The Apprentice throwing in buzz words and wanking off his own equivalent of Lord Sugar, Sheik Mansour. The difference is, I run my club, no one else. I find my own players and make the club work efficiently.

Cider thinks my reject, Bas Dost, is the second coming of Christ when really he is a good player scoring goals in an average league. Apparently it makes more sense to buy him and sell Tevez who is rated higher. The same applies with Kompany.

He portrays himself as the Jesus Christ of the lower leagues. A friend. A savour. Loaning out his young players generously to help those who need it. The truth is Cider has tried to monopolise that area of the market that the lower league clubs could use to find their own gem. Big Red has fell for his smoke screen, I just hope the League Managers Association get together and try and remove Cider and his sham of a club from the Englsh Footbal League as soon as possible.
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Bas Dost is the second coming of Christ? He's one of twenty players of similar calibre at City; it's you who's come over all pissy since I signed him.

Yeah I got rid of Tevez, because the guy's an arsehole and I didn't need him anyway; I've got Aguero, Ronaldo and Balotelli; Bas Dost is fourth choice, what the feck did I need that cnut Tevez for, rather have the £18.5m any day of the week.

Just didn't need Kompany either tbh, I'd rather the £26.6m Wolfsberg were willing to pay for him. Decent player and all, but there's no such thing as Sheik money in this game and I needed depth rather than immediate first XI quality if I'm gonna fight on all four fronts lie I intend to.

I've taken the opposite approach to Urbanned and Chelsea really. He's got a great first XI as you can see above, but those players are mostly dinosaurs, he's signed seven players at a value of £159m - average age: 29! . He was fortunate enough to inherit a half decent youth setup though, something I didn't have the luxury of at City; I've kept four or five of my youngsters but they really were the best of a bad bunch. So compare Urbanned's policy to mine: I've signed twenty-eight players at a total value of £199m - average age: 20 years old, and you can see the two distinctly different directions we've taken our clubs in. Which direction is the best? Well, short term his, but long term mine no doubt; that's been my philosophy all along, to plan for depth and long term development.

Bas Dost is just one piece of the above puzzle, so hopefully you can see now why your crying and bitching about him is pointless. If you wouldn't have sold Tevez or Kompany then that's what it is; an irrelevance since you're not in charge of City, are you? I'll probably beat you to the signature of many more talented players over the coming years, that's something you're just going to have to get used to, but in the meantime, keep your fecking sticky, mid-table toffee nose out my club business, you stupid prick!
 
Urgh my head hurts so much. Woke up to find that that from the three players I've bid on, there's probably only one I'll get. Hull had already bid on one of the players before I did, but upped his bid since the last time I went on, and Mr. Religion put a high bid on one of the other players I went for. At least I'll get Rani Khedira anyway...

The other two players:

Joroen Lumu
Hull's original bid: 10k
My original bid: 20k
Hull's increased bid: 50k - will definitely win.

Kenneth Omeruo
My original bid: 315k
Everton's bid: 400k - will definitely win.
 
JB7 said:
Just read through the last couple of pages, best lau I've had all night. :lol:

That Sunderland job by the way, hope my application this morning wasn't lost on the New Manager Selecting Committee!
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Sunderland balance: £35.2M

Wow.

Oh and same with mine if they're still going down the select an existing manager route. Leeds are still well into the black with no financial problems whatsoever and have a few players with potentially a great future - Jantschke and Muriel for example.

Updated application:

Name: Damien

Clubs managed (No. of seasons at club, inc. current season)

Leeds United - The Red Cafe League (No full seasons completed)

Honours won

None

Current season

Leeds United (The Red Cafe League) season 1
Division: 2
Games played: 6
Points: 14
Current league position: 1st

Playing style

I change my tactics depending on the side I play against. Usually when I play a strong side away I start off defensive and end the match more offensively which has yielded good results (see the wins against Chelsea and Arsenal for two notable examples). I pride myself on having sides with strong defences and in the 17 games I have played since taking control of Leeds, we have only conceded more than one goal once, and have kept nine clean sheets. The formation I favour is 4-2-3-1.

Transfer policy

Signing young players and some risers (see Sala, Jantschke, Muriel for examples of both). As a rule I usually don't sign players 27 or older, but there have been some exceptions which haven't resulted well. I've made my mistakes but I feel I have learned from them. When dealing in the market I look at my finances and make sure that the club is not going to go in debt - and to this date Leeds have not gone into debt and if I leave, whoever takes over them will be in a solid financial position with a nice young, strong squad of players.

Additional information

I have loved my time at Leeds, and if I don't get the vacant position at Sunderland my dedication to Leeds will not waver at all but I feel ready to have a shot at managing a Division 1 side and aim to take them to the next level, and what challenge could be better than Sunderland?

While at Leeds I have played 17 games both in the league and friendlies. Here is the full breakdown:

Played: 17
Won: 12
Drawn: 4
Lost: 1
Win %: 70.6
Goals for: 37
Goals against: 9
Clean sheets: 9
Total shots: 301
Total shots on target: 158
Opponents total shots: 192
Opponents total shots on target: 96

I'm also unbeaten against Division 1 clubs in the four matches I have played against them. Results:

Chelsea 1 - 2 Leeds United
Arsenal 0 - 1 Leeds United
Leeds United 4 - 1 Swansea City
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 - 0 Leeds United
 
I like the CV style. Will have to get an updated CV up then, think I might be the underdog for the job!
 
Ah, I remember well how Damien said that the job should go to a new manager when I first said I wanted the Sunderland job. Such a hypocrite!
 
Burrow said:
Ah, I remember well how Damien said that the job should go to a new manager when I first said I wanted the Sunderland job. Such a hypocrite!
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:lol: Link me to where I said that.

JB7 said:
I like the CV style. Will have to get an updated CV up then, think I might be the underdog for the job!
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Nah I think you stand a great chance. I like the CV style too, wish I could take credit for it but found it here
 
Burrow said:
Ah, I remember well how Damien said that the job should go to a new manager when I first said I wanted the Sunderland job. Such a hypocrite!
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Just looked back and it was RS not me who said it so I'll accept your apology if you back down :p

RedSky At Night said:
Its the start of the season and you've got a premiership team.

Sunderland should go to a new player imo rather than an existing player as all of us have already made alot of transfers which will impact the league they're in.

Once we're a third/half way through the season then switching to different teams i'd say is ok at that point. But not right at the start. Just my opinion of course :)

I'm sure a new player would come in right away if Maniak changed the topic name to "Soccer Manager RedCafe League - Sunderland Available".
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And if you click this link you'll see my convo with you about the job. Nowhere did I say it should go to a new manager. Someone's getting forgettable in their old(ish) age :p

I did say this:

Damien1990 said:
Or go through those who joined the league (division 2-5) in order of first to last and see if they would be interested and see how they've done with their side. There's no point in having someone taking over Sunderland who will spend way beyond their means and put them in a lot of debt.

What Zarlak said would be best, or just have a random draw from those who applied.
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On that day but it was a bit joky as I knew that I was one of the first managers to join a division 2-5 team so I'd have been one of the first to be asked about.
 
Damien1990 said:
Urgh my head hurts so much. Woke up to find that that from the three players I've bid on, there's probably only one I'll get. Hull had already bid on one of the players before I did, but upped his bid since the last time I went on, and Mr. Religion put a high bid on one of the other players I went for. At least I'll get Rani Khedira anyway...

The other two players:

Joroen Lumu
Hull's original bid: 10k
My original bid: 20k
Hull's increased bid: 50k - will definitely win.

Kenneth Omeruo
My original bid: 315k
Everton's bid: 400k - will definitely win.
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And it went how I said it would. Lumu went to Hull (no complaints there, bargain for Jay), Omeruo went to Everton - damn you TR, you hadn't even registered any interest in him at the time I put my bid in, and I got Khedira.
 
I've made 2 bids. Swapping out 2 players who I know are going to go down in ratings & value come the Newcastle update since they dont play and are old, and that is Harper and Lovenkrands. Getting in like for like. A 25 year old keeper and a 21 year old winger. No one else has interest on them currently. Both have room to improve, but will be handy future prospects and handy reserve players, more so the winger as he is already rated higher than Lovenkrands.
 
Damien1990 said:
And it went how I said it would. Lumu went to Hull (no complaints there, bargain for Jay), Omeruo went to Everton - damn you TR, you hadn't even registered any interest in him at the time I put my bid in, and I got Khedira.
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Yay! I didn't even know that until now.

Sorry. I wouldn't normally do that but I desperately need youth and almost every young player with potential is already nabbed by someone or the other.
 
JayWalker said:
Yay! I didn't even know that until now.

Sorry. I wouldn't normally do that but I desperately need youth and almost every young player with potential is already nabbed by someone or the other.
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You've got nothing to be sorry about as you were in for him first.

I know the feeling about the last part. Hard to find a young player that isn't taken unless they've only just been added to the database like Lumu was.
 
I only have CV's from Damien and MJJ, anyone else applied?

Because MJJ wants the Sunderland job, so if Damien wants the Liverpool one there's no need to vote.
 
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